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Jeez, back in the day (there I go again) the north end of the strip was fun. $1.00 imports and cheap eats, with the Frontier, Stardust, Riviera, Desert Inn, Slots O Fun, Circus Circus, Westward Ho, Sahara, Holy cow and Silver City.
I need to find a time machine.

VegasSlushy

Testify, my good man. I never found my way to Holy Cow back in the day. Might have been closed before I made my first visit to Vegas.

Vegas Todd

Owned by a cheesehead. The only place west of the Mississippi to get an Usinger’s brat and scotch egg.
Great beer, too!

Wayne

Man, you missed out. What a great place that was. RIP HC

Annster

Those were the days. Had a set of grandparents-in-law who returned many times to Westward Ho, just loved it and would not consider any other “resort.” We were all a lot less spoiled folk with simpler needs.

Vegas Todd

That’s where my grandparents stayed too. Gramps would whip out a couple of rolls of dimes and practice his BJ game with me and my brother. Grandma would come back with socks filled with silver dollars, quarters, ect., before Ted Binion burried them.

William Wingo

On my first trip to Vegas as an adult,49 years ago this month, we stayed at Westward Ho and played single-deck 3-2 Blackjack–there wasn’t any other kind–at Stardust and Thunderbird. If you find that time machine, please let me know.

Can I see a show of hands from anyone who put down a deposit for a condo in the Ivana?

JeffinOKC

I see Sahara Ave as the “Value Axis”. In an alliance with the Golden Gaming owned Stratosphere; Lucky Dragon and Grand Sahara could become the north Strip buffer between the overpriced, touristy Las Vegas Strip and the “old Vegas”, stone gambler Downtown. Well bought properties providing old fashioned value.

Mike L

If this does go through, he should find a way to connect the two properties to the rest of the strip. Maybe a loop shuttle between SLS, Lucky Dragon and Caesar’s or just one back and forth between Lucky Dragon and SLS and include monorail passes with hotel rooms.

Coop

Certainly an overhead walkway to the useless concert area and then over to Lucky Dragon? With the existing pot shop right in between them this could be a hippie’s dream. How are we gonna get the monorail to stop Fountainblah instead of Westgate?

Davendish

I’d be thrilled to see the Sahara onion dome sign back on the north strip. Some great times there with great craps crews and questionable 4 am meals at the Caravan Cafe. Love the resurrection of the name. SLS didn’t exactly evoke glamor.

Lots of wishful thinking in these comments. I’m right there with you all, as the Sahara has a special place in my heart, being the first hotel I ever stayed at in Las Vegas as a non-child. I would love so much for it to return to its 1991 glamour, book Shecky Greene in the showroom and Cook E Jarr in the always-free Casbar lounge, turn off the video screens and blaring noises so I can enjoy the standards from the PA and maybe even hear myself think once in a while, and bring back games like Panguingue and Pineapple, but I don’t really see that happening. I’ve stayed in the Grand Sierra a couple of times over the years, most recently in 2012 or thereabouts. A perfectly nice hotel, without a lot of character. If that is the blueprint, it won’t evoke many memories of the Sahara.

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